This feminist scholar and Activist is notable for publications such as The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880–1930 (1985), Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution (1990), and Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West (2005).
She began engaging in feminist and lesbian political activism in the early 1970s.
She has been widely criticized for voicing the controversial opinion that transsexuals facilitate the continuation of socially destructive gender roles.
Born and raised in England, she later gave up her British citizenship and settled in Australia, where she taught political science at the University of Melbourne.
She is a contemporary of the famous feminist Activist and author Gloria Steinem.
